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Production Scheduler (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Operations Engineering
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Production Scheduler drives rate-based schedules, identifies part shortages, projects long-term department needs, and tracks constraints across Starship builds while collaborating to set and execute daily/weekly goals aligned with rate targets.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in production scheduling for a given production work center, including identifying need dates for all part shortages and projecting long-term high-level rate needs for the department
  • Create a rate-based schedule for your hardware and define/track constraints across your build for the next 6+ missions
  • Use an established schedule to create and generate stakeholder buy-in on various scenarios to determine optimal hardware allocation between new/refurb hardware that take into account customer needs, current mission manifest, and customer quality requirements
  • Work with production teams to set, track, and execute daily and weekly goals for the work center that take into account personnel and equipment constraints but support overall rate targets
  • Build strong relationships with internal suppliers and establish high-accuracy means of communication for both estimated hardware needs and completion dates
  • Manage the scheduling and prioritization of your hardware at shared resources that are common to multiple departments at SpaceX
  • Negotiate with peers in other departments for correct overall priority and seek creative solutions that drive the optimal business outcome
  • Monitor MRP systems and leverage SQL Queries to identify hardware shortages for upcoming builds and lead the charge to pull this hardware into your production area
  • Identify, develop, and implement opportunities for increased scheduling automation across the Starship Ship Engineering department with a focus on reducing the manual operations required to develop, track, and update overall schedules
  • Drive down near-term and future schedule risk by conducting work-center level capacity analysis, identifying model and communication gaps that cause schedule slips, and leading initiatives (reactive and proactive) that mitigate those risks
  • Lead efforts to uncover root-cause and develop permanent resolution on issues found during product builds as required to eliminate internal and external blockers to deliver product on time
  • Drive conversations around assembly-level & integration misalignment
  • Identify and support improvement opportunities for product yield, quality, safety, cost and team efficiency

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations; OR 3+ years of professional experience with manufacturing scheduling, planning or operations
  • Experience using ERP/MRP systems in a production environment

Skills

Nice to have:Problem-solvingRelationship managementCoding / IT toolsContinuous improvementProject management
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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